Ncuti Gatwa

Ncuti Gatwa leads new Audible adaptation of David Copperfield

The Doctor Who star is cast alongside Theo James and Helena Bonham Carter.  Following his adaptation of Oliver Twist last year, Sam Mendes (Spectre) is reteaming with Audible to produce another Dickens’ classic. For his take on David Copperfield, Mendes has put together a starry line-up with Ncuti Gatwa in the title role. The cast … >

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The Gold – BBC release images and further casting for Brink’s-Mat drama

Ruth Bradley and Peter Davison are joining the gold robbery tale.  We last reported on The Gold when the show’s principal cast were announced back in April 2022. The dramatization of the daring 1983 heist stars Hugh Bonneville along with Jack Lowden (Slow Horses), Dominic Cooper (Spy City) and Charlotte Spencer (The Living And The … >

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Slow Horses Season 2 – Apple TV+ drops a trailer

The Slough House team return for another case when Russian sleeper agents activate.  Ahead of its premiere on December 2nd, Apple TV+ have released the trailer for the second run of Slow Horses. The show, which enjoyed a well-received first outing earlier this year, stars Gary Oldman as the leader of a team of dysfunctional … >

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‘War and Peace’ episode guide

Mr Selfridge writer Andrew Davies has adapted Leo Tolstoy’s 1869 literary masterpiece War and Peace for BBC One. Directed by Tom Harper (Peaky Blinders), the six-part series stars Lily James (Downton Abbey) as Natasha Rostova, James Norton (Grantchester) as Prince Andrei Bolkonsky and Paul Dano (12 Years A Slave) as Pierre Bezukhov. The cast also includes … >

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‘War and Peace’ Episode 5 review: Natasha is broken

I shouldn’t like to have lived in the Russia of War and Peace, as pretty as it may have been. The consequences of Natasha’s momentary lapse of sanity have come to light: James Norton plays Andrei here with a stoicism so fragile you can see his brokenness leaking out through the fractures in it – … >

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